I love how technology flips sides after a while. Used to be the microwave was the luxury item, only the rich folks had them and everyone else "had" to cook the old-fashioned way. Now all the Common People throw the Wal-Mart E-Z-Cheez in the nuker and only rich folks have the time/luxury to plan their meals and cook on the stove!
(Well, at least that's what it looks like from going to Williams-Sonoma and reading the dream-kitchen articles in Sunset magazine.:-)
Let [Campbell] play Flash Thompson (jock who harassed Peter in high school) as an adult, or maybe let him play Eddie Brock before he becomes Venom (or even as Venom -- Campbell can act pretty crazed when he wants to).
Venom, hell -- Campbell should play J. Jonah Jameson. That'd be a Spider-Man movie I'd actually watch.
Re:Good idea, VERY poor implementation
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Still a dumb idea for any video rental store. Why should they settle for a piece of a DIVX re-rental fee when they get evey cent of every late fee they collect now?
DIVX was also a loser for video rental stores because video shops *want* those return-the-rental visits that DIVX was designed to eliminate. Some percentage of people returning tapes/discs continue on into the store and rent or buy something else. Stores aren't going to adopt anything at the retail level that puts that big a dent into impulse purchasing...
Re:Could someone tell me why it was bad?
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1) Federal law protects the privacy of your video rental records. Not so for DIVX "rental" records.
2) Running phone line to my home theatre is an unnecessary hassle.
3) Taking a DIVX disc to a friend's house is a pain because playing a movie on their player starts the 48-hour "countdown" for that title on DIVX's central computers. (The discs aren't serialized, so the player can't tell one copy of a movie from another.) If for some reason your friend liked the movie and decided to buy it themselves, they would be charged the "re-rent" fee the first time they played their copy.
4) I don't know what you pay for VHS and DVD rentals, but around here there are plenty of five-nights-for-a-buck tapes and DVDs available.
5) If plays have to be centrally authorized, the studios can prevent you from watching DIVX discs you "own" (as is eventually going to happen to the poor suckers who upgraded their movies to Silver). Nobody can come to your house and take away your copy of The Basketball Diaries.
6) Well yeah, you actually are paying more for DIVX than for VHS and DVD, at least around here.
7) There are hundreds of widescreen VHS titles out there -- it's really exploded over the past year or two. DIVX went out of their way to tell folks they weren't actively supporting widescreen because their market research told them not to. (I suspect there's going to be a few heads rolling in their market reseach division...)
8) There are actually a handful of special edition VHS tapes out there with most/all of the goodies usually associated with laserdisc and DVD SEs. They have to do the commentary as a second tape, though.:-)
9) Nobody expects to watch tapes on their computer. I don't think it's unreasonable to look down on a DVD-based format that can't be played on a DVD-ROM drive.
10) Having to lie to people to market your product usually means it's an inferior product -- otherwise why would you have to lie to get people to buy it?
11) Studios refusing to release titles on a format makes that format less interesting to me. God forbid I might actually want to watch a movie Paramount puts out...
12, 13) Okay, we're getting into silly-land here.
DIVX is very different from renting a movie. Those differences might not have much to do with how you rent, but they have a lot to do with how I do. Does't fit my lifestyle model, sorry, and I'm overjoyed to see it go. The last thing a growing market like DVD needs is the kind of consumer confusion that comes from garbage like DIVX.
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(Well, at least that's what it looks like from going to Williams-Sonoma and reading the dream-kitchen articles in Sunset magazine. :-)
Venom, hell -- Campbell should play J. Jonah Jameson. That'd be a Spider-Man movie I'd actually watch.
Still a dumb idea for any video rental store. Why should they settle for a piece of a DIVX re-rental fee when they get evey cent of every late fee they collect now?
DIVX was also a loser for video rental stores because video shops *want* those return-the-rental visits that DIVX was designed to eliminate. Some percentage of people returning tapes/discs continue on into the store and rent or buy something else. Stores aren't going to adopt anything at the retail level that puts that big a dent into impulse purchasing...
1) Federal law protects the privacy of your video rental records. Not so for DIVX "rental" records.
:-)
2) Running phone line to my home theatre is an unnecessary hassle.
3) Taking a DIVX disc to a friend's house is a pain because playing a movie on their player
starts the 48-hour "countdown" for that title on DIVX's central computers. (The discs aren't serialized, so the player can't tell one copy of a movie from another.) If for some reason your friend liked the movie and decided to buy it themselves, they would be charged the "re-rent" fee the first time they played their copy.
4) I don't know what you pay for VHS and DVD rentals, but around here there are plenty of five-nights-for-a-buck tapes and DVDs available.
5) If plays have to be centrally authorized, the studios can prevent you from watching DIVX discs you "own" (as is eventually going to happen to the poor suckers who upgraded their movies to Silver). Nobody can come to your house and take away your copy of The Basketball Diaries.
6) Well yeah, you actually are paying more for DIVX than for VHS and DVD, at least around here.
7) There are hundreds of widescreen VHS titles out there -- it's really exploded over the past year or two. DIVX went out of their way to tell folks they weren't actively supporting widescreen because their market research told them not to. (I suspect there's going to be a few heads rolling in their market reseach division...)
8) There are actually a handful of special edition VHS tapes out there with most/all of the goodies usually associated with laserdisc and DVD SEs. They have to do the commentary as a second tape, though.
9) Nobody expects to watch tapes on their computer. I don't think it's unreasonable to look down on a DVD-based format that can't be played on a DVD-ROM drive.
10) Having to lie to people to market your product usually means it's an inferior product -- otherwise why would you have to lie to get people to buy it?
11) Studios refusing to release titles on a format makes that format less interesting to me. God forbid I might actually want to watch a movie Paramount puts out...
12, 13) Okay, we're getting into silly-land here.
DIVX is very different from renting a movie. Those differences might not have much to do with how you rent, but they have a lot to do with how I do. Does't fit my lifestyle model, sorry, and I'm overjoyed to see it go. The last thing a growing market like DVD needs is the kind of consumer confusion that comes from garbage like DIVX.